Last chance to book your hotel room in Atlantic City, NJ!AAA-CPAStay in style at the brand new Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J., the location of our 2014 Northeast Regional Conference. Taking place May 2-4, experience all Revel has to offer with us. The block of rooms we have secured is filling up quickly, so make sure to click here or call 609-348-0500 to reserve your room. The deadline for reservations using our group discount is April 18.

Come add to the discussion and receive up to eight hours of CLE/CPE credit. Education sessions begin the morning of Saturday, May 3, and we will conclude the conference on the morning of Sunday, May 4. Registration is now open! Please click here to register online. We are also offering Saturday-only education.

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Outdated tax code gives some working spouses a bad dealNPRWomen today are nearly half the workforce, and two-income couples are the norm. But the U.S. tax code? It's straight out of "Ozzie and Harriet."
When it comes to paying taxes, economists say a lot of secondary wage-earners are getting a raw deal. It's called the marriage penalty.

Tax-relief 'rescues' are really a ruseThe Washington Post You're deeply in debt to the Internal Revenue Service when you hear a radio ad promising to settle the bill for a fraction of what you owe.
There will be a team of tax experts, some of whom used to work for the IRS, to help you negotiate with the agency, the advertisement claims.

Tax returns go from post office to digitalUSA Today April 15 will mark a digital first for Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen. It will be the first year ever he won't be heading to the post office to drop off his tax return.

For the unemployed, too, the tax man comethMSNBCUnemployed workers who lost their federal benefits this year are now facing with another hit to the pocketbook: their tax bills.
All federal jobless benefits are taxed just like wages, and 33 states plus Washington, D.C., fully tax their unemployment insurance as well, according to the Tax Foundation.

IRS: Bitcoins are property, not currencyReuters Wading into a murky tax question for the digital age, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service said that bitcoins and other virtual currencies are to be treated, for tax purposes, as property and not as currency.
"General tax principles that apply to property transactions apply to transactions using virtual currency," the IRS said in a statement, meaning that bitcoins would be taxed as ordinary income or as assets subject to capital gains taxes, depending on the circumstance.

The top 1 percent and what they payCNNMoneyEveryone talks about the 1 percent — but who are they exactly? It takes at least $389,000 to make the club: That was the minimum threshold of adjusted gross income in 2011, the most recent year for which the Internal Revenue Service has final data.

Poll: Most say federal taxes too highPoliticoA new poll shows that more than half of Americans think the amount they pay in federal income taxes is too high.
Fifty-two percent said the amount they have to pay is too high, while 42 percent called it "about right," according to a Gallup poll.

Senators ask US to stop garnishing tax refunds to pay for old debtsThe Washington PostThe U.S. government should stop confiscating taxpayers' refunds to pay off decades-old debts to Uncle Sam that their parents may have incurred, two senators said.
Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., asked the Social Security Administration to halt its three-year-old practice of intercepting taxpayers' federal and state refunds to cover overpayments that the agency says it made to families more than 10 years ago.